Re: [s-h] Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel

J.A. Magallon
2002-01-08T09:26:53Z

On 20020108 Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > Would't it be better to split drivers:
>> >
>> > sound/core.c
>> > sound/alsa/alsa-core.c
>> > sound/alsa/drivers/alsa-emu10k.c
>> > sound/oss/oss-core.c
>> > sound/oss/drivers/oss-emu10k.c
>>
>> Thats much harder to do randomg greps on and to find stuff,than drivers
>> first
>
>I agree. Put drivers separately, let's not split it up more than that.
>

What would you do with drivers with the same name (source code file)
in alsa and oss ?
Sound is special because you have two implementations of the same subsystem
living together. And eventually in a (near?) future, the oss subtree
will be killed and the alsa one would go up one level, just as is. Much
cleaner. And you will end with

sound/alsa-core.c
sound/drivers/alsa-driver.c

By

/juan

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